MoGraph Review on C4DCafe.com

"The effects that can be achieved with MoGraph may well make users of other applications jump ship or integrate CINEMA 4D into their production pipeline."

"CINEMA 4D already has some foothold in the broadcast graphics market and the addition of MoGraph gives more weight to this. The effects that can be achieved with MoGraph may well make users of other applications jump ship or integrate CINEMA 4D into their production pipeline."

"MoGraph includes the functionality of quite a few existing CINEMA 4D plugins and some that are no longer available, notably Jenna. In most cases MoGraph surpasses what these plugins did and the usage is generally easier as well.

"...object mode. This is very powerful. You can arrange your clones on to splines and objects. When arranged on to objects this is similar to using the Place on Points plugin. What's clever is the object being arranged on to doesn't have to be made editable,..."

"Did I mention that you can arrange your clones on to Thinking Particles groups or even standard particles? Well you can by using a TP group or a standard particle emitter in the object field of the cloner tag. This then allows you to use particle effects on your clones. And even more cool is you can use effectors as well. Slick!!"

"...By animating the effector strengths you can morph from one effect to other or go the whole hog and combine all of the effects together. The variation in what you can do is almost endless."

"And of course, what's more fun than using one effector? Two or more effectors. Effectors can be stacked up in the effector field on cloner or any other objects that have an effector field."

[RE: the Time Effector] "And since this is CINEMA 4D and the 4 stands for the fourth dimension - time, we can make time go backwards by tweaking the spline graph. Time travel - awesome!!"

" I have to say that I was blown away when I found out that Thinking Particles (now referred to as TP in the review) can be generated and controlled with MoGraph. Although I have some experience of using TP, it's reasonably challenging to use. Hold on to your hats folks, as MoGraph via the Matrix object let's you create and control Thinking Particles. "

[RE: the Instance Object] "This is one very cool object and spectacular effects can be achieved with it."

"Tracer is probably my favourite thing in MoGraph. It can be used to create splines between clones or wait for it………. Particles!! "

Editor's Note: This lengthy, (57 pages), but thorough, review includes multiple mini-tutorials, to get you started with MoGraph.

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